The epidemic of burglary and shoplifting sweeping Britain is being largely
ignored by the criminal justice system, a think tank says today.
Three quarters of all crime in the UK is now property crime but it has
effectively been decriminalised as police and courts turn a blind eye, the
report says.
As a result, there is a new type of “silent victim” who - however many times
they suffer from property crime - just get on with their lives and have no
faith that offenders will be caught or punished, according to the
centre-right think tank Policy Exchange.
The successes

A Christian children’s worker who gave a colleague a Bible is claiming unfair
dismissal, saying that she was sacked from her job because of her religious
views on gay marriage.
Sarah Mbuyi alleges that a conversation she had with a lesbian colleague
ultimately led to her dismissal from Newpark Childcare in Shepherds Bush,
west London. She argued at an employment tribunal in Watford that she has
the right, under EU law, to enter into conversations with adult colleagues
subject to the normal principles of engagement in speech.
Miss Mbuyi claims that in January last year a

A judge was forced to discharge a jury and order a retrial after “incompetence” led to a Muslim witness being sworn in on the Bible not the Koran.
When the mistake in the robbery trial came to light, Recorder Patrick Thompson told the court: “It is probably best a fresh jury who doesn’t think we’re all totally incompetent hears this case.”
Michael Davies, 38, denies trying to rob a kebab shop in Birkenhead, Merseyside, while armed with a hammer last summer.
While he was giving evidence at Liverpool crown court, it emerged that the manager of the kebab shop , Kerim Kurt, had sworn an oath on t

Tens of thousands of airline passengers will be in line for compensation for
delayed flights after a court rejected attempts by an airline to block
payouts.
Five airlines are likely to be forced to compensate for delays linked to plane
technical faults for the first time after a county court judge warned that
“justice delayed is justice denied”.
The move is likely to lead to a flood of applications for payments of up to
£430 under European Union legislation.
Under rules introduced a decade ago, airlines must pay compensation for delays
to flights other than those cause